At CCCC this year, I kept an ear out for psychology-related projects. I didn't see many, but one stuck out to me. At the Feminist Workshop on Wednesday, Eileen Schell talked about a project she's working on related to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives. The project she discussed was Women's Lives in the Profession. With the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, Schell is collective narratives about women's experiences in Rhet/Comp.
When discussing this project, she also brought up a community-based writing project dealing with Veterans (but I don't have many notes on this).
Schell connected these projects by stating that they're both about using writing as a way of healing or processing. By writing, the Veterans have a chance to think through what they experienced and put that to words. By telling their stories, women in the profession can deal with emotional trauma.
This doesn't really relate to my exploratory project this semester, but I thought it was interesting, and it's making me look forward to our Third Topos: Writing with/as Psychological Intervention. And, I figured that if I get feedback saying that my I/O Psychology and Rhet/Comp labor might not work, I could pursue something more in this direction.
Choices, choices.
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